It's not so much that you can't ever use it, it's more a you really shouldn't. It's more expensive, harder to use and rarely worth it. Main users currently are

It's not so much that you can't ever use it, it's more a you really shouldn't. It's more expensive, harder to use and rarely worth it. Main users currently are crypto and raid checksumming. https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/next/core-api/floating-point.html https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/next/core-api/floating-point...